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Compare Features of Resume Posting Sites

Use Margaret Riley's Riley Guide to check out the features and amenities of free resume databases. Click here to proceed

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Research Your Job Target

Jumpstart's Online Research Center includes some of the best places on the Net to research market trends, industries, employers, salary ranges, and other job search issues.

Related Resources: The Riley Guide on Job Research


Create an ASCII Resume

Want to send your resume by e-mail or paste it into online databases or at potential employers' Web sites? If so, you need an ASCII resume. Our instructions lead you through the process of changing your word-processed resume into an ASCII (plain text) file.

Instructions: ASCII File with No Breaks
Create a resume for cutting and pasting into online forms.

Instructions: ASCII File with Breaks
Optimize ASCII readability for the human eye.

Sample: ASCII Resume
What ASCII resumes look like.

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Confidential Job Searching

Learn how to guard your privacy and keep your job search under wraps by creating a confidential resume: The Undercover Job Search

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Jumpstart Your Job Search

Jumpstart Your Job Search: The Web Site
This unique Job Search Information Center provides everything you need to know about online job searching! Featuring more than 200 annotated links, the site was developed by Pat Kendall, author of Jumpstart Your Online Job Search (© 2000, Prima Publishing) and coauthor of eResumes: Everything You Need to Know (© 2001, McGraw-Hill).

Jumpstart Your Online Job Search: T The Book
Jumpstart Your Online Job Search (© 2000, Prima Publishing). 300+ pages. Pat's step-by-step instructions take you through the process of preparing e-resumes and launching an effective online job search.

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Make Your Resume Scannable

Make your hard copy or faxed resume scanner-friendly: Read Article


Negotiate Salary

Monster.com's Salary Center features a collection of articles and resources on salary-related issues: comparing job offers, knowing your value, handling salary requests, and negotiating salary.


Prepare for an Interview

Interviewing Resources Center
JumpstartYourJobSearch.com
Links, articles, and tips on all aspects of interview preparation.

Interviewing Tips
By Pat Kendall, NCRW

Related Links: Video Interviewing


Post Your Resume on the Net

The ABCs of Resume Posting provides step-by-step instructions on each phase of resume preparation and posting.

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Write a Cover Letter

ASCII / Internet Cover Letters:

Cover Letters / Traditional:

Step-by-step instructions on how to introduce your candidacy to potential employers and leverage your most important keyword skills and accomplishments. Read Article
Cover Letters for E-mail:
Get instructions on how to write and format cover letters for online job searching and e-mail transmission. Learn how ASCII cover letters differ from paper-based cover letters. Read Article | Cover Letter Finesse | ASCII Tips
Cover Letter Template:
From Jumpstart Your Online Job Search. Cover letter template shows what, where, why, and how. (What should be included; where to put it; how to do it; why it's important.) Template | ASCII Cover Letter Sample


Write a Thank You Letter

Say Thank You
By Nathan Newman

Thank You Letter Guide
DamnGood.com
By Yana Parker

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chaos of diverse emotions.
I catch it again, I seize it, I embrace
it with delight... I multiply it by modulations,
and at last I triumph in the first theme.
There is the whole symphony.

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN

 

 


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